Find Funding at the Federal Level
There are two ways to learn of federal funding opportunities:
I. To register to receive e-mail notification of federal funding opportunities
A. To receive notices from all agencies:
- Go to http://www.grants.gov
- Go to side bar, “Find Grant Opportunities,” and click
- Go to “Email Subscription” and click
- Go to “All Grant Notices” and click
- Enter your e-mail address
- Click “Subscribe to Mailing List”
A Note from Carolyn Pate:
When seeking federal grant announcements, I recommend registering for ALL grant announcements to be submitted to you via e-mail. When you register, you will get a daily e-mail with everything that was posted the night before. Once in a very great while, you'll receive more than 10 announcements, or "blurbs," but most of the time, you’ll receive only 3-5. Each "blurb" is only four lines long (the funder's acronym, the funder’s name, the name of the program, and the URL to access more information). So it takes about three seconds to read each blurb. The advantage to subscribing to all announcements is that you're sure not to miss one.
The disadvantage to signing up today is that you've missed everything posted over the past 5-6 months. To find those announcements, you should search as indicated in this document. Please call or e-mail me if my instructions in section 2 above are not clear. (cpate@txstate.edu or 5-2314)
B. To receive notices from individual agencies
1. National Science Foundation (NSF)
To receive notification of new NSF program information, by email or via a custom web page, you may subscribe to My NSF
2. National Iinstitutes of Health (NIH)
To subscribe to the NIH Guide LISTSERV, send an e-mail to listserv@list.nih.gov with the following text in the message body (not the "Subject" line):
subscribe NIHTOC-L your name
(Example: subscribe NIHTOC-L Joe Smith)
Your e-mail address will be automatically obtained from the e-mail message and added to the LISTSERV.3. Grantsnet
To subscribe to the grantsnet listserv, click on the following link:
http://www.grantsnet.org/funding_news_alert.cf4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
To subscribe for NASA grant opportunities, click on the following link: http://research.hq.nasa.gov/subs.cfm
5. National Center for Environmental Research (NCER)
To subscribe for NCER announcements of new grant and/or funding opportunities or to highlight new documents in specific subject areas: Website
6. U.S. Dept. of Education (ED), EDINFO Website
7. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Connect Website
Each month NEH Connect! delivers the latest news, projects, upcoming events, and grant deadlines from NEH:
8. Department of Energy (DOE)
DOE Pulse, a bimonthy newsletter, highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Each issue includes research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories, and profiles of individual researchers.
To subscribe, go to DOE website.
9. Department of Justice (DOJ)
JUST INFO, sponsored by the DOJ National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), is a biweekly e-mail newsletter that reports on a wide variety of criminal justice topics.
To subscribe, send a message to listproc@aspensys.com. In the body of the message, type: subscribe JUSTINFO <your full name>.
10. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
NIST Update is a bimonthly report that highlights research, activities and services at National Institute for Standards and Technology.
To begin receiving e-mail copies, sign up here.
11. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP); the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
To register to receive e-mail notification that Requests for Proposals have been published on the NCHRP and TCRP Homepage, complete the form on the web here.
II. To search or browse for federal funding opportunities:
A. To browse on grants.gov:
- Browse by category:
- Go to http://www.grants.gov
- Go to side bar, “Find Grant Opportunities,” and click
- Go to Search Opportunities and click
- Go to “browse by category” and click
- Browse by “All Categories of Funding Activity” (recommended if you’re not sure what category you should pursue). The information is presented chronologically by due date (“Close Date”) but you can sort by “Opportunity Title” or “Agency.”
B. To browse by agency, go to the individual agencies:
Questions? Contact Carolyn Pate cpate@txstate.edu or 245-2314